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OP The discussion on another board I frequent may be of interest to AWAD-ites. It started with whether there was any connection between the Indo-European and Semitic languages and has now deviated to the Eskimo words for snow chestnut.
http://forums.about.com/ab-ancienthist/messages/?msg=3224.1
I came across this authoritative-looking reference for a discussion on the Eskimos and snow topic:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html
Bingley
Bingley
Boy that about.com forum is a pain to navigate. Combines all the worst features of flatline and threaded. I have another site that challenges the eskimo vocabulary hoax thesis. If I can find it, I'll post it. I think it's bookmarked only on my work machine. Lists maybe about 40 some odd eskimo lexemes for snow. Maybe. It gets a little hard to tell in polysynthetic languages (or whatever they're calling them these days) what *is a lexeme. As for the English, I have trouble considering these:
snow fort
snow house
snow man
as separate lexemes for snow.
And all the names the skiers use.
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